I downloaded darwin 8.1 cd when I try to load my computer from it, a lot of text appears on the display, that said has no kernel dependency, after that is over it just stays there than like every 10-20s this comes up " still waiting for root device " can anybody explain to me what this means I have try to run other OS on my mac like ubuntu, and knopixx with no luck ubuntu just stays stuck on a white screen, and knopixx doesnt eve load up, I was wondering is there something wrong with my computer? can someone Please explain this to me, and possibly give me a solution.

Knoppix is built to run on the x86 cpu architecture (386, 486, Pentium 1 2 3 4, Celeron, AMD Duron, Athlon, Opteron, etc). The Apple machines use a G4 or G5 which is a PowerPC CPU. The only way I know of running knoppix on your ibook is to first load up VirtualPC.

You can use Ubuntu Linux which is made for the PowerPC cpu. Ubuntu two types of CDs, one that runs only from CD and the other is installable to the hard drive. You can find them at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/download/

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Knoppix is built to run on the x86 cpu architecture (386, 486, Pentium 1 2 3 4, Celeron, AMD Duron, Athlon, Opteron, etc). The Apple machines use a G4 or G5 which is a PowerPC CPU. The only way you could run knoppix on your ibook is to first load up VirtualPC.

You can use Ubuntu Linux which is made for the PowerPC cpu. Ubuntu two types of CDs, one that runs only from CD and the other is installable to the hard drive. You can find them at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/download/

I got 8.0.1 the lates one I think, I dl both versions of ubuntu, and nothing they both only go as far as the white scree that is it, nothing more Darwin I though I could run than I get some app so I could than do some network exploitment ( my own ) but nothing I have no Idea of what is going on.